Letter: Consumers ripped off on gas prices

We need an attorney general with some backbone to check why the price of gasoline is so high.

A few months ago, three gasoline refineries in the Bay Area cut back on production to do maintenance and there was a fire in the BP refinery in Washington state that shut it down and all this was going on at the same time. Gasoline prices went up over $4.

Last week we had a refinery in Southern California that lost power for one or two days plus the Chevron plant being partly shut down because of a fire a few months ago. This time the price of gasoline went way up over $4.

On Friday, Oct. 5, the wholesale price of gasoline for all grades was $2.95. Ninety cents to one dollar above that price is more than a normal and fair pump price.

You can look at it a number of ways but to me it says one thing: We are being ripped off.